Bronchiectasis: A pulmonary disease with systemic consequences

Miguel Angel Martinez-Garcia^{1

2}, Oriol Sibila^{2

3}, Stefano Aliberti^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Pneumology Department, Hospital Universitario y Politécnico la Fe de Valencia, Spain.
² CIBERES de enfermedades respiratorias, Instituto de salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
³ Pneumology Department, Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy.
⁵ Respiratory Unit, IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy.

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Miguel Angel Martinez-Garcia et al. Respirology. 2022 Nov.

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. 2022 Nov;27(11):923-925.

doi: 10.1111/resp.14370. Epub 2022 Sep 13.

Miguel Angel Martinez-Garcia^{1

2}, Oriol Sibila^{2

3}, Stefano Aliberti^{4

5}

¹ Pneumology Department, Hospital Universitario y Politécnico la Fe de Valencia, Spain.
² CIBERES de enfermedades respiratorias, Instituto de salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
³ Pneumology Department, Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy.
⁵ Respiratory Unit, IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy.

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Keywords: bronchiectasis; cardiovascular disease; exacerbations; systemic inflammation.

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